Be Warned..... McAfee Bug??

[kb5zue]

Randomly over the past few weeks now while browsing the internet I have received a pop-up warning that my McAfee Antivirus software has expired and I need to renew my subscription.  Since I have never had a subscription to McAfee I know this is false and I just close my browser to make the suspect website disappear.  Surely I am not the only person getting this "warning" and I just want to pass along a warning for others to be aware of this piece of garbage and to be cognizant of the spam and to not fall prey to this and delete anything related to this.  The last time I received this garbage was just a couple of minutes ago and that is what prompted me to issue this warning to others.  Be extremely careful, DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SPAM......

[Lurick]

It's a sign of a likely computer infection with malware.

Or it's a shitty ad that should be blocked.

[whispous]

Can you get a screenshot (uncropped!) of this recurring error? It sounds like you have malware.

[manikyath]

that's not a bug, what happens here is that you're getting pop-up notifications from a website that sells advertising space in pop-up ads.

 

this is why when sites ask you if they can send notifications, you ALWAYS click no.

 

as for how to fix it.. i've only ever had to fix that in edge, and microsoft in their wisdom hides this somewhere in a very convoluted menu in privacy settings somewhere, and it keeps moving.

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

that's not a bug, what happens here is that you're getting pop-up notifications from a website that sells advertising space in pop-up ads.

 

this is why when sites ask you if they can send notifications, you ALWAYS click no.

 

as for how to fix it.. i've only ever had to fix that in edge, and microsoft in their wisdom hides this somewhere in a very convoluted menu in privacy settings somewhere, and it keeps moving.

 

6 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Randomly over the past few weeks now while browsing the internet I have received a pop-up warning that my McAfee Antivirus software has expired and I need to renew my subscription.  Since I have never had a subscription to McAfee I know this is false and I just close my browser to make the suspect website disappear.  Surely I am not the only person getting this "warning" and I just want to pass along a warning for others to be aware of this piece of garbage and to be cognizant of the spam and to not fall prey to this and delete anything related to this.  The last time I received this garbage was just a couple of minutes ago and that is what prompted me to issue this warning to others.  Be extremely careful, DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SPAM......

Right to the left of the web address, you can click there to get to site settings to enable/disable this stuff. 

 

[kb5zue]

4 minutes ago, Lurick said:

It's a sign of a likely computer infection with malware.

Or it's a shitty ad that should be blocked.

No, don't think it's malware or a virus.  Just before going to bed every night around 2am that last thing I do with my machine is download/install the latest virus definition file from Mickeysoft so the first thing my machine does apon waking up in the morning (10am) is do a scan.  So far nothing pops up as being bad so I think I'm good there but thanks for the response.  Just out of poops and giggles, I will do another scan now just to be sure.

[kb5zue]

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

 

Right to the left of the web address, you can click there to get to site settings to enable/disable this stuff. 

 

Thanks, I was not aware of being able to do that so I will start checking that out when something screwy pops up.  Many Thanks.

[manikyath]

7 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Right to the left of the web address, you can click there to get to site settings to enable/disable this stuff. 

that's the easy way out.. in edge (not sue if this exists in other browsers too) websites can cake you with toast notifications even if you dont have the site open.. so you'll just get flooded with nonsense even if you just have edge sitting at the homepage.

[kirashi]

5 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

 

Right to the left of the web address, you can click there to get to site settings to enable/disable this stuff. 

 

2 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Thanks, I was not aware of being able to do that so I will start checking that out when something screwy pops up.  Many Thanks.

Adding to @Skiiwee29's response, things like this are why I outright disable Notifications in all browsers I use. If website developers used them responsibly (or the browser had a way to discern between legitimate and malicious notifications) I might use them, but for now they remain off.

[kb5zue]

Thanks for the help, will check that now.